Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-18

them and offer them my arm, orI take
their arm and bring them to this Gospel
well. Sit down, father or mother, sit
down. See if there is anything at the well
for You. Come, David, the Psalmist, have
you anything encouraging to offer them!
Yes" says the Psalmist; They shall
still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall
be fat and tlourishing to show that the
Lord is upright He Is my rock, and
there is no unrighteousness in me-"
Come, Isaiah, have you anything to say
out of our prophesies for these aged people?
"Yes, says Isaiah; Down to old age ]
am with thee, and to hoary hairs will ]
carry thee" Well, if the Lord is going
to carry you, you ought not TO worry
much about your failing eyesight and fail
ing limbs. You get lhtle, worried for
fear some time you will come to want, do
you? Your children and grandchildren
sometimes speak little sharp at you be-
cause of your ailments.
THE LORD WILL NOT SPEAK SHARP.
Do you think you will come to want? Who
do you think the Lord is? Are His gran
aries empty? Will He feed the raven, and
the rabbit, and the lion in the desert and
forget you? Why, naturalists tell us that
the porpoise will not forsake its wounded
and sick mate And 10 you suppose the
Lord of heaven and earth has not as much
sympathy as the fish of the sea? And you
say: al am so near worn out, and l am OF
no use to God any more" l think the
Lord knows whether you are of any more
use or not; if you were of no more use He
would have taken You before this. Do You
think God has forgotten you because He
has taken care of you seventy or eighty
years? He thinks more of You to-day than
He ever did because you think more of Him.
May the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and
Jacob, and Paul the aged, be your God
forever!
But gather all the promises to-day in
group, and ask the shepherds to drive
their tiocks of lambs and sheep up TO the
sparkling supply. Behold, happy is the
man whom God correcteth." Though
he cause grief, yet will he have compass
SION" MANY are the affections OF the
righteous, but the Lord delivereth them
out of them ALL" Weeping may endure
for the night, but the joy cometh in the
morning" am determined this morn
ing that no one shall go out of this house
uncomfortable. Ionder is n umid and
shrinking soul who seems to
HIDE AWAY FROM THE CONSULTATIONS
am uttering, as child with sore hand
hides away from the physician lest he
touch the wound too roughly, and the
mother has TO 20 and compel the little
patient to came out and see the physician.
So come to your timid and shrinking
soul to-day, and compel you to come out
in the presence OF the Divine Physician.
He will not hurt You. He has been heal
ing wounds for many years, and He will
give you gentle and OmnipOtent medica-
ment. But people, when they have
trouble, 90 anywhere rather than to God.
DeQuincy took opium TO get rid
of his troubles. Charles Lamb
took to punch. Theodore Hook took to
something stronger. Edwin Forrest took
10 theatrical dissipation. And men have
rnn all around the earth, hoping in the
quick transit to get away from their mis-
fortunes. 1t has been a dead failure
There is only one well that can slake the
thirst OF an afflicted spirit. and that is the
deep and incxhaustible well of the Gospel.
But some one says in the audience:
Notwithstanding all You have said this
morning. ! find no alienation for my
troubles" Well, ! am not through yet.
have left the most potent consideration
for the last am going 10 soothe you
with the thought of heaven. However
talkative We may he, there will come a
time when the stOute4t and most emphatic
Interrogation will evoke from us no an.
swer. As soon as we have closed our lips
for the final silence no power on earth can
break that tacitnrnity. But where, o,
Christian, will he your spiritp In scene
OF infinite gladness. The spring morning
Of heaven waving its blossoms in the bright
air. Victors fresh FROM battle showing
their scars. The rain of earthly sorrow
struck through
WITH THE RAINBOW OF ETERNAL JOY.
Ia one group God and angels and the re-
deemed-Paul and Silas, Latimer and Rid
lev. Isaiah and jeremiah, Payson and John
Milton, Gabriel and Michael the arch
angel. Long lines Of choristers reaching
across the hills Seas Of joy dashing TO the
white beach. Conquerors marching from
gate to gate. You among them.
oh, what great flock of sheep God will
gather around the celestial we'll No stone
on the wells mouth, while the shepherd
waters the sheep There Jacob will
recognize Rachel the shepherdess
Aud standing on one side
of the we'll Of eternal rapture,
your children; and standing on the other
side of eternal rptures, your Christian au-
cestry, you will be bounded on all sides by
joy 50 keen and grand that no other
world has ever been permitted 10 expert
ence it. Ont Of that one deep well Of
heaven, the Shepherd will dip reunion for
the bereayed, wealth for the poor, health
for the sick, rest for the weary. And then
all the fiocks OF the Lords sheep will lie
down IN the green pastures, and the word
without end we will praise the Lord that
on this summer Sabbath morning, we were
permitted to study the theory Of Jacob and
Rachel the shepherdess at the well In Meso